Milk jug, Helena Wolfsohn, Dresden, Germany, circa 1879 - 1880
Description
Hand-painted, partly gilded porcelain, signed.
Height: 13 cm
Helena Wolfsohn was a successor of her father who run a porcelain business under the name L. Meyer & Söhne. She was buying white porcelain mostly in Meissen and decorated it imitating style of the oldest Meissen pieces by Johann Gregorius Höroldt. She also used Watteau paintings as her inspiration.